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  <h1 class="Head">Perspectives</h1>
  <p>Each Workbench window contains one or more perspectives. A perspective defines the initial set and layout of views
  in the Workbench window. Within the window, each perspective shares the same set of editors. Each perspective
  provides a set of functionality aimed at accomplishing a specific type of task or works with specific types of
  resources. For example, the Java perspective combines views that you would commonly use while editing Java source
  files, while the Debug perspective contains the views that you would use while debugging Java programs. As you work
  in the Workbench, you will probably switch perspectives frequently.</p>
  <p>Perspectives control what appears in certain menus and toolbars. They define visible <i>action sets</i>, which you
  can change to customize a perspective. You can save a perspective that you build in this manner, making your own
  custom perspective that you can open again later.</p>
  <p>You can use the <a class="command-link" href=
  'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Perspectives)")'>
  <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>General &gt; Perspectives</b></a>
  preference page to open perspectives in the same window or in a new window.</p>
  <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="concepts-2.htm">Workbench</a><br>
  <a href="concepts-6.htm">Editors</a><br>
  <a href="concepts-5.htm">Views</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="../tasks/tasks-9f.htm">Opening perspectives</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-3.htm">Opening views</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-24.htm">Changing where perspectives open<br></a> <a href="../tasks/tasks-31.htm">Specifying
  the default perspective</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-28.htm">Switching between perspectives</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-9k.htm">Configuring perspective shortcuts</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-9m.htm">Configuring perspective command groups</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-9n.htm">Showing and hiding menu items and toolbar buttons</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-9i.htm">Saving a user defined perspective</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-9j.htm">Resetting perspectives</a>
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